Turn
Turn your audio into videos you can share on Instagram.
I have kicked off development of the next version of Turn. In order to accomplish this, I had to put my freelancing work on pause and commit to staying focused on this single endeavor. In order to keep myself motivated, I have decided to share development progress on my Twitter account via the following thread:
I found myself with a brief break from my freelance work and built out the #1 requested feature: audio trimming. This function allows users to choose the 60 second audio selection they wish to use on the produced video. Before now, I would simply encourage users to trim beforehand. It took a while to figure this one out which is probably one of the reasons I put it off for so long. Regardless, I'm happy to make my users' lives a bit easier. Check out this Twitter thread to learn about my process.
Another Redditor created this amazing tutorial video which not only explains how the app works but also provides some key feedback. I'm feeling so positive about this community!
One of the Redditor's that reached out to me after my post in /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers was Ryan who works at The Drunken Coconut providing services to independent artists. He promised a feature on Turn and here it is. Amazing. I'll be keeping an eye on this and the Happy TV feature.
I totally missed this while but Turn was covered by Happy Mag a few days ago. That is our first piece of press!
The Reddit community made me aware of the fact that Instagram's iOS app mono sums audio so I have begun looking into a possible "solution" for the Turn app.
I was inspired by a chapter in Traction and my Reddit feedback to create a small external utility which allows users to generate a vinyl record image from a piece of their artwork. Given the fact that Turn creates a rotating music video, a vinyl record just works perfectly. I dropped a link to the tool on my Twitter and personally reached out to interested parties on Reddit.
I decided to upgrade the video dimensions to 640 pixels because Instagram was resizing the 540 pixel videos to 480 causing a huge loss in quality. This may slow down the video creator a bit but the visual gain should be large.
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